We dream that we are awake, we dream that we are asleep. The three states are only varieties of the dream state.

Treating everything as a dream liberates.

As long as you give reality to dreams, you are their slave. By imagining that you are born as so-and-so, you become a slave of the so-and-so. The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process, to have past and future, to have history.